February 2, 2025

The Jews of Siargao Island

  By David Haldane February 2, 2025     It started at an airport. Strolling through Mactan-Cebu International Airport last month, I noticed a bearded man […]
December 2, 2024

Confession: Hamas Made Me Vote for Trump

  By David Haldane Dec. 2, 2024     I’m ready to confess something that most regular readers of this column have probably already guessed. I […]
October 20, 2024

Ilan Fluss: Israel’s Embattled Ambassador

By David Haldane October 20, 2024     The security precautions were impressive. The invitations, issued in advance after thorough screenings, were non-transferable. Invitees were given […]
October 7, 2024

Exploding Pagers Offer New Hope After a Painful Year

By David Haldane Oct. 7, 2024   It’s hard to describe my reaction to last month’s news that pagers were exploding all over Lebanon. Joy, happiness, […]
September 9, 2024

Zone of Interest

By David Haldane Sept. 9, 2024     I hated the speech. Accepting an Oscar for his movie, “The Zone of Interest,” earlier this year, English […]
May 20, 2024

Can America Be Trusted?

By David Haldane May 20, 2024     It’s a painful question. Especially for an American who wants, more than anything, to take pride in his […]
January 1, 2024

Redefining Aggression

By David Haldane   Jan. 1, 2024       It felt like a punch in the gut. The Philippines, my favorite country and historically a […]
November 16, 2023

Hitler on Lazada

By David Haldane Nov. 16, 2023   It felt like someone had yanked out my kidneys. Unable to sleep, I’d opened my cell phone to Facebook […]
November 2, 2023

Tension

By David Haldane Nov. 2, 2023     The revelation came while I lay leveled on the pavement. Thirty seconds earlier, I’d been speeding home on […]
September 9, 2021

American Sins

By David Haldane Sept. 9, 2021     The line in the newspaper wrenched my gut. “Sitting on a pile of sandbags outside the family compound,” […]
August 26, 2021

Falling from the Sky

By David Haldane August 26, 2021     The video is shocking. In it, one clearly sees two dots—later identified as human beings—falling to their deaths […]
May 27, 2021

Broken Glass

By David Haldane May 27, 2021   The video felt like a punch in the gut. In it, dozens of young men accost diners at a […]